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Memories of Masbrough
'Memories of Masbrough' is part of the Growing Up in Rotherham series and brings together the memories of four women who lived in the area between 1920 and 1950.
 In those days there were three stations, Masbrough, Westgate and Central, and Whitsuntide Church Walks. They remember Masbrough as dirty, grimy and even possibly dangerous with all the factories belching out smoke and dust before the Clean Air Acts. They take us on a journey contrasting the outer dirt with the spotless rooms and friendly demeanour of the inhabitants.
There are detailed descriptions of houses and Dad's place in it, washdays, shopping and Sunday lunches. Life on the streets was vibrant with vendors, barrel organs, horses, carts and rag and bone men. There was Jarvis and Womack, the roofers and Joseph Woodgers, the chain makers who had been in business 100 years back then.
Christmas dinners did not necessarily mean turkey, more likely was pork and two rabbits. There was a pawn shop where one woman took a barrow-load of stuff on a Monday and redeemed it on Friday, for people who who did not want to be seen going in there. She charged a penny for her services. The Salvation Army played on the streets every Sunday.
The book brings back a whole different world of living; a huge contrast to the way things are today. |
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